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PodCastle turns 300!

Posted on 2014-02-26 at 14:55 by Sam

PodCastle has published its 300th fiction podcast! The 300th episode is E. Lily Yu's Ilse, Who Saw Clearly, read by Wilson Fowlie. Congrats to Dave and the whole PodCastle team:

PS: This also happens to be the 500th post on The AudioBookaneers. Happy coincidences, everyone!

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The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 at 15:33 by Sam

Via Booklist Online, the 2014 Audies Finalists have been announced. My first thoughts are 1. that I'm thrilled to see Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman named as a finalist in the Science Fiction category. And 2, I can't recall a previous year with such a broad base of audio publishers. The big 5/6 and Amazon's imprints, along with independents both big (Recorded Books, Blackstone, Tantor, and GraphicAudio) and small: Podium (who continues to produce an extremely high quality of well-curated and well-cast

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alex bledsoe, andy weir, audies, brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, clockwork angels, doctor sleep, ellen kushner, ever after, george guidall, green space, helene wecker, joe hill, john hodgman, kate mulgrew, kevin j anderson, kim harrison, kim stanley robinson, macleod andrews, maddaddam, margaret atwood, max brooks, metatropolis, miachael page, michael kramer, neil gaiman, neil gaiman presents, neil peart, nos4a2, ocean at the end of the lane, podium, richard kadrey, rip-off, robert sheckley, scott lynch, shaman, stefan rudnicki, stephen king, the martian, will patton, world war z

Coming to Town, post-visit edition: Deborah Johnson for The Secret of Magic

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 18:13 by Sam

Q: I enjoyed hearing you read your own author’s note for the (really fantastically well done) audiobook edition. Were you involved with or have you listened to Peter Francis James‘ narration? A: I loved Peter Francis James’s voice from the first moment I heard it on the spec. I knew he was the one to read the audio and was thrilled when he was chosen. This is a little aside: I read the author’s note and when I was working on this the director told me that Peter Francis’s grandfather, like mine, had served

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Armchair Audies 2014!

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 01:20 by Sam

Eagerly awaiting the Armchair Audies just about as much as I'm eagerly awaiting the Audie Awards finalists lists themselves:

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Audible's "Begin at the Beginning" sale, including Tad Williams, Richard Kadrey, Mira Grant, Paolo Bacigalupi, and more

Posted on 2014-02-11 at 18:37 by Sam

Running through February 19, Audible.com's Begin at the Beginning sale on first books in a series includes 206 books all priced at $4.95. Now, 206 titles is a pretty long list. Here's what caught my eye, with covers and "PICK:" notations for the ones I really recommend, which include Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer, Mira Grant's Feed, Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Paolo Bacigalupi's Shipbreaker, Tad Williams' The Dirty Streets of Heaven, and Michael J. Sullivan's The Crown

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alan cumming, jonathan davis, leviathan, michael j sullivan, mira grant, paolo bacigalupi, richard kadrey, sandman slim, scott westerfeld, simon vance, tad williams, tim gerard reynolds

Release Week: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, James Marsters reads The Kingmakers, Allen Steele's V-S Day, Christopher Golden's Dark Duets, METAtropolis stories, Scott Sigler's Pandemic, J.C. Hutchins' "The 33", and Natania Barron's Pilgrims of the Sky

Posted on 2014-02-07 at 19:06 by Sam

JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 4, 2014: You are in for quite a treat this week, audiobook listeners. From the surreal and claustrophobic Annihilation to the rapiers-afly adventure of The Kingmakers, to alternate history and on to an intriguing anthology of horror and dark fantasy. Meanwhile, the entire roster of METAtropolis stories have been released individually, and podcasting pioneer J.C. Hutchins released the first installment of a new serial project, "The 33". Speaking of podcasting pioneers, Scott Sigler's

Posted in Release Week, Uncategorized | Tagged allen steele, annihilation, carolyn mccormick, christopher golden, clay and susan griffith, dark duets, james marsters, jc hutchins, jeff vandermeer, metatropolis, the 33, the kingmakers, the southern reach, v-s day, vampire empire

Review: Annihilation

Posted on 2014-02-07 at 06:25 by Dave

Annihilation (Book 1 in the Southern Reach trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer, Read by Carolyn McCormick Length: 6 hours

It's  a simple, classic set-up: A group of explorers head out on an expedition to the mysterious Area X. They have gone through rigorous training that strips much of their identity in hopes of generating unbiased field reports. Instead, they are referred to simply by their scientific professions: Psychologist, Anthropologist, Surveyor, and Biologist. There was a Linguist too, but something

Posted in reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged annihilation, carolyn mccormick, jeff vandermeer, kaleidoscope of wtfery, southern reach trilogy

The Kitschies Finalists Announced

Posted on 2014-01-31 at 02:59 by Sam

Via SF Signal, the finalists for the 2013 Kitschies have been announced. The UK-based awards categories include the Golden Tentacle for best debut, the Red Tentacle for best novel, and the Inky Tentacle for best cover art, with the addition of some special mentions. The awards offer a fantastic and unique perspective on books, carving out a highly-curated sensibility of intelligent speculative fiction: "The Kitschies, presented by The Kraken Rum, reward the year's most progressive, intelligent and

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Richard Ellis Preston's Romulus Buckle (Chronicles of the Pneumatic)

Posted on 2014-01-25 at 19:24 by Sam

Saturday, January 25, 2014: Both books in Richard Ellis Preston's Steampunk adventure series Chronicles of the Pneumatic are Kindle Daily Deals at $1.99 today, and both offer $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrades to their Audible editions, performed by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio.

Book one is Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders. "In a postapocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their

Posted in Uncategorized, Whispersync Deals | Tagged luke daniels, richard ellis preston, romulus buckle

Pre-order update: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Posted on 2014-01-16 at 20:51 by Sam

Not that I've been checking every week for a couple of months or anything, but: one thing I snuck into an update of this week's release week coverage is that there's finally a pre-order page at Downpour.com for Annihilation (Southern Reach, Volume 1) by Jeff VanderMeer, read by Carolyn McCormick for Blackstone Audio, due out February 4 concurrent with the Farrar, Straus, & Giroux print/ebook release:

I last reported on this audiobook late last month when McCormick, the voice of The Hunger Games audiobook

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged annihilation, carolyn mccormick, jeff vandermeer